How To Install gedit-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-plugins on Debian 9. gedit-plugins is set of plugins for gedit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-plugins on Debian 9.

What is gedit-plugins

gedit-plugins is:

gedit-plugins contain a set of plugins for gedit, GNOME’s text editor.

The following plugins are included:

  • Bookmarks: Easy document navigation with bookmarks
  • Bracket Completion: Automatically adds closing brackets.
  • Character Map: Insert special characters just by clicking on them.
  • Code Comment: Comment out or uncomment a selected block of code.
  • Color Picker: Pick a color from a dialog and insert its hexadecimal representation.
  • Color Scheme Editor: Source code color scheme editor
  • Commander: Command line interface for advanced editing
  • Dashboard: A Dashboard for new tabs
  • Draw Spaces: Draw spaces and tabs
  • Find in Files: Find text in all files of a folder.
  • Git: Highlight lines that have been changed since the last commit
  • Join/Split Lines: Join several lines or split long ones
  • Multi Edit: Edit document in multiple places at once
  • Smart Spaces: Forget you’re not using tabulations.
  • SyncTeX: Synchronize between LaTeX and PDF with gedit and evince.
  • Embedded Terminal: Embed a terminal in the bottom pane.
  • Text Size: Easily increase and decrease the text size
  • Word Completion: Word completion using the completion framework

There are three methods to install gedit-plugins on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gedit-plugins Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gedit-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gedit-plugins

Install gedit-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gedit-plugins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gedit-plugins

Install gedit-plugins Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gedit-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gedit-plugins

How To Uninstall gedit-plugins on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gedit-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gedit-plugins

Uninstall gedit-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gedit-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gedit-plugins

Remove gedit-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove gedit-plugins configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gedit-plugins

Remove gedit-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gedit-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gedit-plugins

Dependencies

gedit-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-plugins package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.